How do you paint the color gold? It’s a question that comes up early for many artists, as soon as they’re drawing their first princess crown or dragon hoard and find that the yellow or brown crayons ...

With his first "starry night" painting in Arles in 1888, Vincent van Gogh transformed an ordinary city square into something extraordinary – here's how he did it, and what it means.

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In December 1956, an inebriated Jackson Pollock was speeding through East Hampton, on Long Island, when he lost control of his Oldsmobile, killing himself and Edith Metzger, a friend of his mistress, ...